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by deadgrey19 2258 days ago
Basically the entire internet is built on TCP. But TCP wasn't always very good. There was a time when congestion nearly killed the early internet. Congestion avoidance and control talks about how they fixed it. It's light hearted, accessible and one of my all time favourite reads:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/52324.52356